Corporate responses to climate change include a broad range of business decisions - all of them have the potential to impact human rights. At the same time, human rights due diligence has great potential to support effective climate-related decision-making. Tourism as a service-oriented sector strongly depends on social responsibility and respect for human rights. Tourism activities contribute to climate change, and climate change affects every link in the tourism value chain. This online event offers inputs around a human-rights-based approach to climate action in tourism through practical steps and shared experiences. We will elaborate on tangible ideas and how to combine both strategies, by - Understanding the link: The linkages between climate protection and human rights are multifaceted and undeniable. We show you the overlaps and connections, explain why this is relevant and what it means for the tourism industry. - Showing Benefits and Approaches: We will discuss why tourism businesses should integrate human rights into climate change-related actions. We will build the business case by showing how they benefit from combining and aligning both discourses.. - Joining forces: We want to initiate joined-up discussions and interlink business, human rights and climate action through our collective expertise. We also see this event as an opportunity for exchanging knowledge and ideas regarding approaches, existing resources, good practices and ways of collaboration Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkdOuvrD0uG93TNJl33TAyKa1iHut-8f7L

The awareness of sustainable travel is rising - but the question remains how this will contribute to long-term, meaningful development. Tourism players often say customers would have to demand sustainable products more to create more offers. In contrast, customers state that they would request more sustainable products if offered more. It is often unawareness and a lack of sensitisation that lead to the demand for products incompatible with human rights and environmental due diligence. Tourism companies are understandably keen to present their products positively and attractively. At the same time, many are confronted with how to communicate supposedly "less pleasant topics" such as human rights and sustainability principles and sensitise their customers without raising a finger. This webinar will shed light on how tourism stakeholders can influence travellers to choose more sustainable products with relatively simple means. It will help understand communication's relevance to achieving customer understanding and goodwill for one's business principles and highlight how customers can be sensitised in the destination. Milena S. Nikolova is an expert in applying insights about human behaviour to sustainability, travel and education solutions. She will share passionate and practical insights on linking psychology with responses to the travel industry's fundamental opportunities and challenges. This webinar is targeted at tourism businesses and other stakeholders such as DMCs and is intended to - Understand the power of understanding when communicating "supposedly unpleasant" topics with customers. - Learn how to use this knowledge to nudge customers into more sustainable product choices. - Show concrete measures to sensitise customers to social sustainability before and during travel.

2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the endorsement of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). Since then, they are progressively integrated into policies and legal frameworks by an increasing number of governments. National supply chain laws and the discussion about regulation at EU level are leading to uncertainty among many companies about the obligations they will have to face. This Symposium is about turning the gaze forward and will build the business case for human rights due diligence in tourism, with or without legal obligations. In a solution-oriented multi-stakeholder setting, this online event offers practical "satellite" discussions around supply chain laws and due diligence for a holistic human rights approach: Understand the domino effect: Why value chain laws are relevant for every tourism business, including SMEs and what they imply concretely We will get an overview of existing and future supply chain laws and frame them on a globalised market to understand what these legislative processes (such as the new German Supply Chain Act) include and what impact they will have on existing and future business practices. Look on the bright side: Why there is always a business case of human rights due diligence We will investigate why business respect for human rights in tourism is more than compliance or a requirement to "do no harm", and elaborate on how it contributes to positive and transformative change in people's lives and sustainable development. Join forces: How we must and can work together We will deep-dive into practice examples on some essential due diligence features and relevant topics for tourism businesses and explore possibilities to tackle challenges that might appear on their due diligence journey.